Staff & Contributors

Jeff O’Neal, CEO & Co-founder, reads books and writes about them. Before he did this, he taught writing and literature at a large East Coast university. He has the great good fortune of living with his favorite person in the world and their two bright, beautiful children in Portland, OR.

Rebecca Joines Schinsky, Executive Director, Product & eCommerce, loves books, bourbon, and the kinds of pop culture you’re supposed to call guilty pleasures. She co-hosts the Book Riot Podcast and All the Books, and is also passionate about travel, cooking, and yoga. She serves on the board of directors for Project Yoga Richmond in her adopted hometown, Richmond, VA.

Amanda Nelson, Executive Editor, can usually be found romping along the river in Richmond, Virginia, with her twin boys and foster children. Amanda also serves on the Young Professionals Council of the Virginia League of Planned Parenthood, and puts her former-indie-bookseller skills to use as the co-host of the Get Booked podcast.

S. Zainab Williams, Managing Editor, is a writer, cartoonist, former Birutė Galdikas wannabe, and hedge witch. Cursed with rampant wanderlust, she lives for travel, and doesn’t know what life even means without writing, books, and drag clubs. You can occasionally find her at her website, or hiding under a wig hissing at joggers from her basement window.

María Cristina García Lynch, Assistant Editor, lives in New York with her favorite spouse, her favorite toddler, her favorite cat, and her second-favorite cat. When not ranking members of her household, she’s catching up on Supergirl, strumming her mandolin, or trying to beat the clock on her library loans.